So…yeah. Looking at file size, it clearly beats older 264 or even 265. I don’t mind if my server is going to have to transcode for most clients, I think the size difference in size might be worth it. But not sure which groups I could focus to look for these AV1 releases, seem they’re quite scarce still?
Lossy to lossless is fine it’s just a waste of space.
It’s extra wasted space because compression artifacts are hard to compress lossless. It’s a shit sandwich, so people advise against it.